Tbilisi. Russian human rights activists stress the
importance of adoption of the Amnesty Law in Georgia and congratulate 190
political prisoners, released in Georgia on Sunday, January 13.

Georgian media outlets released a
statement, signed by the leading Russian activists - Lyudmila Alekseeva, Sergey
Kovalev, Aleksey Semenov, Yuri Rizhov and Ernst Cherniy, on Monday, January 14.

"The final step that Georgia needs to
take is the rehabilitation of the victims of political reprisals. We
congratulate all released political prisoners, as well as Georgia, with the
return onto the democratic path," it is statement in the statement.

Russian human rights activists also
pointed out that "Russia should go a long way for holding fair elections,
release and rehabilitation of political prisoners" and "the
people-elect government is required for that."

More than three thousand people are
expected to leave prison under the amnesty law. Many prisoners will be cut
their terms of imprisonment. Individuals, declared under the Georgian
Parliament's corresponding decree as political prisoners, were released first.

The Ministry of Corrections and Legal
Assistance of Georgia shall, in two weeks' time, submit the cases of other
prisoners to court in order to determine the articles, within the scope of which
this or that particular prisoner falls.